The patent-telecoms-complex has been granted its wish and the move by the EU to regulate #patents embedded in #standards ( #SEPs) has been killed. SEP holders prefer expensive, obscure, anti-competitive litigation and were afraid the transparency would harm them so lobbied Council into submission.

https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/eu-commission-withdraws-sep-regulation/

This doesn't mean action is not required however. SEPs embedded in the standards we have to obey to comply with the law have got to go. https://opensource.org/blog/standards-and-the-presumption-of-conformity